Roman Catholic Diocese of Abancay
Catholic ecclesial territory in Peru / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Diocese of Abancay is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Peru. It was erected on April 28, 1958 from the territory of the Archdiocese of Cuzco with Alcides Mendoza Castro being made its first bishop. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province to the metropolitan Archdiocese of Cuzco.
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Diocese of Abancay Dioecesis Abancaiensis | |
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Location | |
Country | Peru |
Ecclesiastical province | Cuzco |
Statistics | |
Area | 12,950 km2 (5,000 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2005) 335,628 310,628 (92.6%) |
Parishes | 17 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Secular priests | 58 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Gilberto Gómez González |
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Gilberto Gómez González has been the bishop of the diocese since 2009.